| Zoo's public feedings of big cats praised, condemned by experts
Those are some of the adjectives used to describe the public feeding of lions and tigers at the San Francisco Zoo -- a venerable ritual that has stopped with the closing of the zoo's Lion House after a gruesome attack on a keeper three days before Christmas, observed by scores of visitors. In the wake of the Dec. 22 mauling of Lori Komejan, whose right arm was chewed up just after mealtime by a Siberian tiger named Tatiana, the future of the Lion House is unclear. "It will be closed until further notice," said zoo spokesman Paul Garcia. Over the decades, generations of Bay Area residents have watched the big cats devour chunks of horsemeat in their cages inside the Lion House. The public feeding occurs six days a week at 2 p. m., when the four lions and three tigers are summoned from their outdoor enclosures.
2 clothing stores to open in Shreveport this spring
Two retail clothing stores will debut in Shreveport in late spring. Talbots Woman and J. Jill are coming to Shoppes at Bellemead on Youree Drive.
Both stores are owned by Talbots, which relocated to the southeast Shreveport shopping center in September.
The company decided to bring the stores to this area after seeing the success of Talbots, said Alvin Childs, a partner in Vintage Realty and co-developer of Shoppes at Bellemead with Rand Falbaum.
Were expecting them to start construction on the stores shortly, Childs said.
J. Jill, a national specialty clothing store for women, has 200 stores nationwide. Talbots Woman is a division of Talbots designed for plus-size women.
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Annika Sorenstam aims to knock down doors for women in golf course ...
ORLANDO, Fla. - Annika Sorenstam sits in the corner of the hotel ballroom, looking over her notes for a corporate gig. The best women's golfer in the world mouths some of the words on the hand-scrawled index cards to herself in a whisper, getting the lines down. Waiters carrying trays of smoked salmon puffs and crab crepes swoop past, serving the corporate types here for a joint Lexus/USGA press conference. Sorenstam is dressed in the requisite power pants suit, all black. But she still seems out of place amid the insider backslapping and forced guffaws over free food. When it's time to emerge from her corner and head to the podium stage, she delivers her lines with equanimity. "I got here in my Lexus," Sorenstam says, winning a laugh from the assembly of execs.
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A Madison resident recently purchased a home on Midwood Terrace, for a borough record of $5.1 million, according to several local real estate agents and the Garden State Multiple Listing Service. Is your nanny being naughty?
Jill Starishevsky's Web site allows employers to keep tabs on their nannies through license plates attached to strollers, and she wants to expand the service into New Jersey. Morris cops seek pair spending fake $100 bills
Authorities are seeking help in finding two men who presented counterfeit $100 bills at half a dozen businesses in Kinnelon and Butler this week. Man gets 35-year prison sentence for Harding attack
A 29-year-old Queens man was sentenced on Friday to 35 years in state prison for robbing and pistol-whipping a Harding resident who hired the convict's girlfriend in 2003 to give him a night of sex.
3 Turk villagers tested for bird flu
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Three people will be tested for bird flu after they reported feverish symptoms in a southeastern Turkish village where there has been an outbreak of the deadly virus, a state-run laboratory said yesterday.
The three were taken from the village of Bogazkoy in the province of Batman on Saturday and put under observation at the medical department at Dicle University in Diyarbakir.
Authorities were suspicious their high fevers and flu-like symptoms were caused by the H5N1 strain of bird flu, which was confirmed as the killer of 170 chickens in their village on Friday.
Yesterday, Turkey's Ministry of Health reported that tests on a separate fourth possible bird flu case in Bogazkoy had proved negative, the semi-official Anatolian news agency said.
A Turkish baby feared to have contracted the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu is free of infection, the country's health ministry said.
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